Not a week goes by where we don’t get a phone call that goes something like this: I broke up with my girlfriend a week ago. She wasn’t happy about that, but I really sent her over the edge when she saw me with a new girl at a bar in Chicago. She screamed at […]
One of the best things the City of Chicago has done is to add bike lanes throughout the city. On Dearborn St.where our office is located there are scores of bikers there every single day heading in each direction. Unfortunately, with thousands of people biking to and from work and to other places, we’ve seen a big increase […]
Illinois law says that you have three years from the date of your injury to file a claim for workers’ compensation. Even if you have a perfectly good claim, blowing the deadline can mean that you are forever barred from bringing that claim. Filing a claim means that you fill out an Application for Adjustment […]
A very nice guy called us. He had injured his rotator cuff while working in Schaumburg. At first the insurance company was paying all of his medical bills and time off work, but suddenly they stopped doing that without any apparent reason. He was hoping that I could find him a free lawyer because […]
Although discrimination in the work place happens every day, being able to prove it is another thing. Winning those lawsuits has always been very hard and usually when someone comes to us with a case, we recommend that they start at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission as that is typically the first step in investigating […]
I was saddened yesterday to talk to the widow of a man who was killed Monday in a trucking accident. She only called me though because since the accident she has been flooded with calls from law firms and their investigators who are trying to get her to sign up with their firm to pursue […]
I get told many times a week from people calling me for a lawyer referral that they don’t want to drive in to the City. They live in the burbs and want the perfect lawyer in their area. Often this is possible for cases like divorce, DUI, criminal defense, estate planning and minor civil litigation. […]
Some medical negligence cases are obvious right away. If you go in to have your bad kidney removed and they accidentally take out the good one (that’s rare, but it’s happened), then there is no doubt that you have a case to pursue. But more often than not, it’s not obvious that there is a […]
If you are in a profession that requires a license in order to make a living in that profession, you hope that your license is never called into question. If it is, you should handle the situation with a better-safe-than-sorry approach. For example, even if you are completely innocent of any wrongdoing, we don’t recommend […]
Lawyers behaving badly – Attorney Warren Danz suspended for 30 days When your lawyer gets disciplined by the ARDC (state ethics board), it is not only a bad reflection on them, but in my opinion, it can look bad on their future clients when they get reinstated. A Peoria workers’ compensation attorney, Warren Danz, was […]